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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒərməˈnɑːtə/ STE-fə-nee jurr-mə-NOT-ə; born March 28, 1986), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of 2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution.

Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". After embarking on...

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The web was set aflurry (well, as aflurry as it could be over a parody song) Wednesday after Weird Al Yankovic posted his parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" ("Perform This Way"), noting that Gaga would not let him include it on his next album. Wel...

For everyone out there who erupts into (unpleasant) convulsions every time a Lady Gaga song comes on the radio at the local grocery store -- Weird Al Yankovic has your back. This parody version of "Born This Way" -- dubbed "Perform This Way" -- poppe...

In the past month, fan engagement on Lady Gaga's and Britney Spears's Facebook Pages went up dramatically -- just as the artists either dropped or plan to drop new albums this spring. According to New York startup FanGager, Lady Gaga was the third mo...

Another day, another music leak. This time, Lady Gaga's hotly anticipated single, "Judas," has made its way onto the web -- just a few days shy of its April 19 release date. The song, off of the upcoming album Born This Way (which drops on May 23), i...

We've been hearing buzz about MTV's new awards show focused on digital music since January, and now the event is beginning to take shape with a list of nominees and a plan for the future. The O Music Awards (the "O" is open to interpretation) is set ...

What was the world tweeting about this past week? In a word: sports. Four out of ten of this week's top trends come from global athletics. But all that sports chatter couldn't top GaGa, whose 25th birthday and 9 million followers sent her name straig...

Lady Gaga is apparently on top of it when it comes to donating money to those affected by the March 11 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Today, it was announced that the pop star donated $1.5 million to Zynga’s fundraising initiative with Save ...

To help raise money for disaster relief efforts in Japan, Universal Music Group has assembled a who's who of the music world for a benefit album called Songs for Japan, which hit iTunes Friday. It includes an exclusive remix of Lady Gaga's latest cha...

Unlike millions of people, Lady Gaga has not watched 13-year-old Rebecca Black’s much-criticized “Friday” video, but that didn’t stop the superstar from defending the teen’s efforts. When asked Tuesday whether the fame teens and children attract from...

Digital media, as many a Mashable reader is aware, is evolving at a rapid pace. It's three months in to 2011, and already we're witnessing the realization of many of our predictions for news media, digital advertising and startups this year. Social t...

Lady Gaga fans, prepare to have the misty veil of mundanity ripped off of your Monday: The video for Gaga's latest hit single, "Born This Way," premiered exclusively on Vevo at 11 a.m. EST today. The video is available above and at Vevo.com, Vevo Mob...

American pop music has loosened its grip on the top Twitter trends and yielded to the news of populist uprisings in Libya, which have been fueled in part by social media themselves. The Libyan protests hit the number one spot on our chart this week a...

The first rule of Twitter trends: Never underestimate the power of American awards shows. While we've consistently seen international sports, entertainment and politics beat out the biggest U.S. cultural trends on Twitter, American broadcasts like la...

She may have lost the Grammy to that band that no one has ever heard of, but at least the denizens of iTunes dig Lady Gaga. "Born This Way" is the fastest-selling single ever to grace Apple's iTunes store worldwide. The song pulled in more than 1 mil...

On Thursday, Condé Nast released Vogue Cover Exclusive for the iPad. This app is the first iPad-entry for the Vogue brand in North America (British Vogue and Japanese Vogue already have apps). The $0.99 app isn't the full issue of Vogue magazine; ins...

Remember all of the Super Bowl banter -- the smack talk, the color commentary, and the commercial cheers/jeers -- that filled your Twitter feed last weekend? Turns out it didn't hold a candle to the Holy Trinity of American pop: Britney, Gaga and Bie...

At the moment, about 40,000 people "like" Virgin Mobile on Facebook, but the brand hopes to hit 1 million by the end of the year using a tie-in with Lady Gaga. The telecom brand is working with social media talent marketing firm Talenthouse on a new ...

This week offers a mixed bag of Twitter trends, and the surprising absence of one item we thought would certainly make the list. As we've seen in the past, international sports usually drive a huge chunk of the Twitter discussion. This week's number ...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today. 1 Million Apps Downloaded From Mac App Stor...

If you're a corporation with a long history in imaging like Polaroid, and you want an injection of creativity, one thing you can do is hire one of the most infamously creative (especially when it comes to visual image) artists around - Lady Gaga. Lad...

Today at CES, Polaroid execs, with the help of new creative director Lady Gaga, have just taken the wraps off a new line of photo-capturing gadgets; like the company's spokesperson, the cameras are as intriguing as they are outlandish. Dubbed the Gra...

Facebook users uploaded more than 2.7 million photographs, shared 1 million links and "liked" 7.6 million pages every 20 minutes in 2010, according to the company. Among other data the social network is releasing: Lady Gaga was the most-liked celebri...

Now at more than 47.5 million views, Auto-Tune the News's "Bed Intruder Song" is officially the year's most-watched, non-major label video on YouTube. The video-sharing site just released the list of its most popular videos of 2010, and it includes s...

Facebook and the Twitterverse have been a little quieter for the past several days, as some of the networks' most famous users -- including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Usher and Alicia Keys -- signed off in the name of charity beginning on Worlds A...

Millions of people will be deprived of their favorite celebrity musings later this week as the likes of Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Seacrest go dark on Twitter and Facebook. The silence will only be temporary, however, as it’s part of a $1 ...

It's been an eventful weekend in social media and technology, and we're here to help you get caught up before an even more eventful week begins. This weekend, Sony retired the Walkman, Groupon added self-served deals, Lady Gaga surpassed 1 billion Yo...

Lady Gaga took to Twitter this morning to announce that her YouTube videos have hit the lofty milestone of 1 billion total views. The musician is the first to reach such a goal, but Justin Bieber is trailing close behind with 962,726,797 total video ...

Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are both closing in on 1 billion all-time YouTube views, according to TubeMogul. If both artists continue at their current rate, Gaga will beat Bieber to the punch by reaching 1 billion views around October 20. Bieber is e...

A study conducted at Northwestern University determined that celebrities like Ashton Kutcher with millions of Twitter followers are mostly ignored on the social media site, resulting in very little if any influence. When the researchers applied their...

Vevo is bringing on-demand music video streaming to mobile with the launch of its long-awaited iPhone app. The free application , which just launched in the iPhone App Store, focuses on bringing top artists like Usher and Lady Gaga to device owners, ...

This weekend, we asked readers to finish the statement, "My favorite mobile application is..." for a chance to win this week's #WinWeekend Sweepstakes (in partnership with Live Nation): an awesome Lady Gaga prize package. The dominant winner was Twit...

Mashable is excited to announce that in honor of Lady Gaga's upcoming new remix album, we're giving away a prize pack with some exclusive merchandise for this week’s #WinWeekend Weekly Sweepstakes in partnership with Live Nation. Last weekend, we gif...

Lady Gaga is the first living music artist to acquire 10 million fans or "Likes" on Facebook, beating U.S. President Barack Obama by around 700,000. She reached the milestone earlier this weekend. Gaga previously made headlines for being the first cu...

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